A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...

After a powerful earthquake struck Japan’s Noto Peninsula in 2024, the damage left scientists searching for answers. The rupture behavior, ground movement, and scale of destruction did not match ...

Researchers at Kyoto University have proposed a new physical model that explores how disturbances in the ionosphere may exert electrostatic forces within the Earth’s crust and potentially contribute ...

SHINONSEN, Hyogo -- A police officer who participated in rescue efforts after the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake spoke about ...

A new study claims that an 80-100-foot-wide layer of clay exacerbated the 2011 earthquake.

Emergency alerts issued in the event of earthquakes off the Pacific coast of central Japan are expected to experience delays ...

Chinese travel to Japan has slumped after airlines canceled nearly half of flights amid diplomatic tensions, security warnings, earthquakes and disease fears.

As this year would be the 15th anniversary of the catastrophe, Japanese writer Tae Hitoto organized a group of 30 Japanese visitors to cycle around Taiwan from March 7 to March 15 ...

TOKYO >> More than 20,000 communities in Japan could be cut off from the rest of the country by a major disaster, according to research by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Japan is set to restart the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world’s largest by potential capacity, after a brief ...

Recently, given the deteriorating public security in Japan, a surge in criminal cases targeting Chinese nationals, and a ...